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STAT+: Mark Cuban teams with a business coalition in bid to lower drug costs for employers

By Ed Silverman

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The goal is to offer employers a new option for prescription drugs while also capturing much of the same data that may be lost to GoodRx.

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STAT+: Medicare chief: 'Door is really open' on coverage for new Alzheimer's drug

By Bob Herman

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Medicare is willing to reevaluate its coverage of Alzheimer’s drugs in light of a new therapy, called lecanemab, the CMS director said.

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The 'electric vehicles' of pharma, Illumina's boondoggle, & a Theranos sentencing

By Damian Garde and Allison DeAngelis and Adam Feuerstein

STAT's Elaine Chen joins us to explain how the escalating demand for a diabetes drug is putting people with obesity in a difficult situation.

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FDA authorizes updated Covid-19 boosters for youngest children

By Helen Branswell

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Previously, the bivalent boosters, which protect against two different strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, were available to kids 5 and older.

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'All the tech in the world doesn't solve this': Rare disease experts push biopharma on equity

By Ambar Castillo

Milken Institute

Language barriers, geography, and low income levels are common obstacles for patients hoping to enroll in rare disease clinical trials.

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